Chapter 17: Down. Down. Down.

Me: *yawns* Yo guys.

Kiba: WTF? Your not your usual self today, what happened?

Me: What do you think happened? *stares at Kiba*

Kuro: Hey Peru! Where is Hidan's scythe?

Me: … … … Ooooooh yeeeah! I was swinging it around in the last chapter and I think it drained away my energy… *frowns* Wait, that doesn't sound right…

Kiba: You never sound right.

Me: That's mean Kiba. *pouts*

Hidan: *bursts in the room, note that he is fuming* WHERE THE FUCKIN' HELL IS MY SCYTHE! *looks around and stops at Peru who has it strapped behind her back* YOU!

Me: *yawns* Yeah?

Hidan: GIVE. IT. BACK.

Me: *stares* …Give what back?

Hidan: MY SCYTHE BITCH! GIVE MY DAMN SCYTHE BACK! OR I'LL SWEAR TO JASHIN THAT I'LL KILL YOU!

Kuro: But if you kill her then this fic will be over…

Hidan: SHUT UP BRAT!

Me: *snaps* Oh, you're gonna pay Hidan for yelling at my OC! Tsk. Tsk. Now you said that you wanted this scythe? Why don't you beat me, if you do then I'll give it to you. *places scythe on the wall behind her, that was seemingly there the whole time and turns back to Hidan* Now why don't you come at me?

Hidan: *growls and charges at Peru*

Me: *flips him over and kicks him in the stomach, kicking him in the sky*

Hidan: *flies and disappears in the never ending sky*

Kiba and Kuro: WTF?

Me: What? Thought I'd try those moves someday, ya know?

Sai: Sorry I'm late. I saw a star in the sky and stopped to wish something on it.

Everybody: 'WTF? He wished on Hidan?'

Me: What did you wish for Sai?

Sai: For new art supplies… why are you asking?

Me: Nothing, just get along with the disclaimer.

Sai: *nods* Peru doesn't own Naruto in any way. If you did think like this, you are not normal.

Me: Oh! I almost forgot you peeps! This chapter won't follow Kuro, instead my (very best) best friend; EtherealGrace gave me an OC. So instead of bronze guy -

Bronze guy: Hey!

Me: - I'm gonna start this chapter with her OC; Sinitria!

Sinitria: Yo! Wuz up?

Me: Get back in the story!

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Back on Mother Earth (which people are distorting her face every second!)…

Sinitria's POV

I stared at the teacher (who looked like Albert Einstien, creepy I know) who was standing in front of my desk. Hands on her (yes a her) hips. I looked up, in her smoldering eyes.

"Uh… hi?" I said nervously. 'Whats wrong with her?'

"Sinitria you need to come to the office, an I'll personally be your escort." She announced. Everybody else in the room was looking at me and snickering, a few whispers seemed to reach my ears.

'She's in trouble again!'

'I think the principal is going to expel her!'

'no need to make assumptions, but I did hear she had a violent record…'

This made me turn to the person who last commented. Turns out it was the class 'Prince Charming'. I smiled sweetly at him and tutted him. "Now, now. There is no reason to spread false rumors about me. Unless you want me to reveal one of your little secrets."

He stopped, smirk gone. I smiled even bigger, savoring the moment a bit longer before Albert Einstien dragged me away. I knew his secrets, wait I need to rephrase that, I know a lot of his secrets. He's had a criminal record of stealing many things like, alcohol, smokes, jewelry, and one time he even tried to steal an old lady's purse. But he was caught and boy did that woman beat him up. Luckily I had my phone with me too! Full battery as well as extra memory. I took a lot of photos of him, catching him on the crime scene always looking around as he grabbed his objective. I even took his picture when he was sleeping (and other embarrassing but cute photos of him; mostly getting hit with the soccer ball in his face, getting tripped over, I even got him without his shirt!) and all of these pictures were sold for millions (and I tell you millions) of copies to his fan girls, all the money that pooled me was huge! I think it totaled up to two million or something (I never counted it). I put a quarter of that in my bank while stuffing the rest in my wallet (which I carried with me everywhere). Sometimes I used it to blackmail him using one of the photos as a backstabber and lying about another photo of him doing something that was all like 'Woah!'.

"Come on Sinitria! The Principal is waiting for you to come by his office!" She scowled, bringing me out of my thoughts ecstasy by dragging me along the way. Nearly choking me.

"Okay! Okay! I'll come! I'll come! So stop dragging me already!" I yelled. I fell to the ground, hurting my bum real bad. I pouted. "You could have at least been more gentle on dropping me down."

"Hurry up!" She said through gritted teeth. I huffed as I got on my feet and followed her to the Principal's office. He had his 'Do Not Disturb' sign hanging from his doorknob. 'What the hell? What would the Principal be doing at this time of day?' I thought as Einstien knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" A gruff voice answered. Einstien cleared her throat.

"I've brought Sinitria, Oolong." I burst out laughing. 'Who on earth would have the name Oolong?' Sure we called him Principle Clifford, but who would have thought that the 'O.' in his name meant Oolong? I received a blow to my head.

"Be QUIET!" Einstien hissed. At that moment the door opened and Oolong stood there, I couldn't help but notice the dullness of his eyes and the wrinkles on his face looked darker than before.

"Oh it's just you Preta." He nodded his head, then looked me over. "Why don't you guys come inside?"

We all made our way inside the office, nothing out of the ordinary. Just an office that you'd expect at any other school. Oolong sat at his desk, hands clasped. I lifted my eyebrow. "Well Principle Clifford, you seem older than usual."

This rewarded me with another hit on my head. I scowled as I nursed my head. Einstien just glared at me. "Now don't be so mean Einstien, as Shikamaru from Naruto says; troublesome. Don't be so troublesome in front of Principle Clifford."

I smiled as I received a glare from Einstien. Oolong on the other hand was chuckling, Einstien flushed under his hearty chuckle. I stared at her wide eyed and looked at Oolong too, then the assumption came to me. "No way~! You two are lovebirds? Who would have thought the replica and tea have a relationship?"

At this Oolong laughed, whislt Einstien was really turning into a hundred or more shades of red. I swiftly took my phone and took a few good pictures of her face, and hid it so it wouldn't be confiscated. Oolong ceased in his laughter and looked at me, smiling.

"Now that was a good laugh! Maybe I should hire you as my Joker!" His eyes glittered.

"Sorry tea man, unless it has a personal homework machine, I can't do it." I held up my hands, looking all innocent-like.

"Oh well, it can't be helped then," He sighed, as he cleared his throat. Now looking all business-like once again. "Now the reason I called you hear, Sinitria, is that I have heard of some incident involving you. Is this true?"

I looked at him, confused and puzzled. If there was something I was involved in I should be able to remember it, I didn't have photographic memory just a good memory. "I don't know what you are talking about."

He raised his eyebrow (it's always his left, I swear his right is paralyzed; cause nobody has seen him raise it or both his brows). "You sure, that you have not been involved in any incidents these past few weeks?"

"That's the problem here, cause you see all of the incidents that I was involved in only lasted three days at most. I'm not involved at some incident that's been going on about three weeks. Definitely not my masterpiece." I nodded my head contemptuously (unless it's to make money with Prince Charming's pictures, then I guess it'll go on for years).

"Well that's plausible, and very true." Oolong thought for a moment, before sighing and shifting in his seat. "Okay, you may leave Sinitria."

I got up to go, but stopped and turned back. "Could you tell me a little more about this incident?"

Oolong stared for a few moments before giving in. "Alright, I'll let you in on the investigation. Preta, could you please get the file folder?"

"Sure thing, Oolong." She left to retrieve the folder, while I was snickering in my little corner.

"I never knew you were a private eye, tea man." I said smiling.

"I used to be the best and I still am." He smiled, his eyes shining. At that moment Einstien came in, handing the folder to Oolong (blushing as she did so, I got snaps on this too!). Oolong flipped through the folder and turned it so I could see what was in it. I let out a small gasp, when I read through it.

One picture had a weird red cloud on it, a piece of information said a police officer was out cold for three days (that's 72 hours in total), another picture had a huge slash mark on concrete wall. Which was highly impossible. I rubbed my eyes and looked at the pictures. 'Yup these are real pictures, no tricks are involved.' I looked at Oolong and pointed to the pictures. "Are these even real?"

"Of course they are! A policeman risked his life in taking these pictures!" He exclaimed. I looked at them once again.

"Where was the last incident held at?" I studied the pictures hard, not looking up at Oolong when I asked him. 'If I'm right...'

"At the park last night, near the Aldergrove bridge." He replied, he seemed to be aware of something because his next sentence had worry written all over it. "Your not thinking of going there are you?"

I looked couldn't contain my smile when I looked up at him. "I'm guessing your right! Who knows this could be an adventure of a life time~! Now my final goodbyes to you mister Oolong and Einstien, if I don't come back of course, and comfort my parents too. Now see ya later~!"

Before he could stop me I ran out the door and made a quick trip to my classroom to get my things. I burst inside and all twenty-four heads turned towards me. Prince charming snickered, his blue eyes and blonde hair mocking me and my light purple hair with light blue highlights. I went up to him and pulled his hair, I managed to rip off a piece. "YEAH!"

"WHAT THE HELL! WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT? THAT FRICKEN' HURT!" He yelled as he held his head in pain. Some of his fan girls gave me the death glare but I paid little attention to them, instead I gave Rupert (Prince Charming) a huge smile and patted him on his head.

"There, there, that's no way to treat a lady! After all I might not be coming back, ya know?" I tutted him while wiggling my index finger. Before any questions could arise, I took my bag and headed to Aldergrove bridge.

-at the Aldergrove bridge-

I huffed my breaths. 'I shouldn't run so much, but man was this far!' I looked around for the park and spotted it just below the bridge. I walked to it, trying to level my breathing, looking around and taking in the scenery. 'Now if I'm right, the people who have red clouds on black is the Akatsuki… but what are they doing here? After all they are just fictional characters from the Naruto manga. But then if those pictures were real and a police officer was out cold for three days… 72 hours… then that must have been Itatchi. And the only explanation for that huge mark on the wall, is Kisame's sword. Which makes sense since they are both partners in crime and all, but-' I couldn't finish my thought process, because the ground just disappeared under me. "AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! SOMEONE, ANYONE HELP MEEEEEEEEE!"

It was a little too late for my S.O.S. call, because everything went black.

-what felt like hours later-

"Oww~!" I came to my senses, and found the ground soft. Then the past events came flooding back, making me wince. 'I went to the park to find Itatchi and Kisame… fell down an unknown hole… and now I'm somewhere…' I looked at my surroundings, and I thought it was familiar when a cough interrupted my thoughts. I looked down to see I was sitting on a shinobi, no doubt a leaf ninja. If you looked closer, his hair was gray and defied gravity… wait his hair defied gravity? I looked closer and examined the shinobi under me. 'OMG! He's Kakashi! No kidding~!' I got up and lent my hand towards him. "Sorry nin dude, I simply fell out of the sky."

"No kidding." He took my hand and got up. "Landing on me wasn't such a bright thing either."

I saw his crumpled 'Echi Echi Paradise' copy. I gasped and started crying comical tears. "Oh no~! I ruined Kakashi's favorite boook~!"

I was too busy crying comical tears to consider Kakashi's puzzled face. Then I brightened up at an idea. I turned to Kakashi, still not paying attention to his facial expression. "I'll go buy you another one!"

He looked at me as if I was crazy before he noticed something. "Hey how do you know my name?"

"Uhhh… because I'm cool like that?" I said lamely. "Now let us be off! We need to get you a new Echi Echi Paradise novel! And as compensation you will treat me to ramen!~"

I started looking around, and turned to Kakashi looking defeated. "Um, could you tell me where Konoha is?"

He looked amused (I think he was amused, wasn't he?) at my statement. He then pointed towards a direction which I hoped was leading us to the village. "If you keep going straight, you will reach there eventually."

"You sure about this?" I asked him quizzically.

"I came from there myself, moments ago. Until you landed on me that is." He replied.

I stared at him for like a few moments (hours) before sighing. "Okay, since you are the great Kakashi; I'll believe you. Now let's get going!"

-moments (hours) of walking later-

"Finally! We're here~! This place looks even better than the book!" I absorbed my surroundings, wide eyed. Nothing was this beautiful in the manga or anime! I inhaled the pure air, before taking out my phone and snapping pictures of the whole place. Kakashi was just looking at my bizarre clicking spree.

I finished, and was satisfied. I then turned to Kakashi and gestured him towards Konohagakure. "Now we'll be on our way."

-at the bookstore-

"Where is the Echi Echi Paradise, ma'am?" I asked the shopkeeper. She was pretty (not as pretty as me of course), she had matching brown hair and eyes, skin was fair. She looked pretty average to me. She smiled and led me to a case filled with them. "Wow, Jiriya is a famous (perverted) author."

"We're having a sale on this collection, they are all 75% off. Hope you enjoy!" She smiled and left, I took out my (stuffed) wallet and began to find the money for the book. 'If I take all of the books that he doesn't have… on second thought I'll just take the book I crumpled, and that would be 20 Ryo's… hmm, I guess I'll give her a twenty dollar bill.' I took out the bill and placed my wallet inside my bag. 'Thankfully it came with me. Don't know what I'd do without it.' I bought the book (with no hassle) and met up with Kakashi outside.

"Here, this is my apology for crinkling your novel." I handed him the replacement, he took it with gratitude. My hand still outstretched.

"Is there something else you need?" He asked raising his (only) eyebrow. I sighed and tutted him.

"Kakashi, you seem to have forgotten the compensation for this task." I leaned a little closer to him (not that close, for your information). "It was to get me ramen, now how can you forget that when one of your very students eats ramen his whole life? That shouldn't be hard to remember, should it now?"

I thought that he would get mad and kill me or something like it, but instead he laughed. "You are indeed a strange one, like Kuro. Now let's go to Naruto's favorite ramen stall."

I followed Kakashi with every turn, while thinking about the name Kuro. 'I swear I heard that name somewhere… but where…' And before I could come up with an answer, Kakashi stopped abruptly. Making me (who was deep in thought and wasn't paying attention) bump into him. "Arg!"

He looked down at me, amused, before taking a seat in the ramen stall. I followed him to my seat. And decided to ask straight out. "Who is Kuro?"

"We'll have two of your specials." He told the ramen dude (I apparently forgot the name to), then he turned to me. "How should I explain this… Kuro is an eight year old kid."

I just simply stared at him. "I don't think that's going to help me out here, tell me what the kid's last name is."

"Shinigami." he replied, as he started to dig in his ramen bowl. I took my chopsticks and began eating as well (not without a quick prayer too). 'Shinigami… Kuro Shinigami… that name was written in a newspaper… three months ago… … … …!'

"NO WAY~!" I said loudly, making Kakashi jump. I look at him apologetically. "Sorry Kakashi, I just remembered who Kuro Shinigami is."

"You know Kuro?" He continued eating his ramen.

"Yup, apparently the name was in the news three months ago; about some 15/16 year old girl gone missing, after school. And like weeks later her Mom also went missing." I continued on eating my ramen as I spoke. "Felt sorry for the Dad of the family."

Kakashi was really quiet for a long time, it made look up to see if he was alright. Turned out to be he was sitting there with a puzzled face. I finished my current slurp and turned to him. "What's wrong Kakashi? Ramen didn't sit well with you today?"

He shook his head (obviously ignoring the last remark I made him). "No, it's just the Kuro I'm talking about doesn't fit your description."

I raised my brow. "In what way?"

"Well you said that Kuro was a 15/16 year old girl, but Kuro is actually an eight year old boy." I could tell he was actually putting effort in this thinking process. "But he did come three months ago and his mother came weeks after the first mission."

"Sounds like a mystery~!" I sang as I began to imitate Sherlock Holmes. "'There is nothing like first-hand evidence.'"

Kakashi was like 'WTF', but I ignored him. I get that kind of reaction quite a lot at school, one kid even told the principle that I had some kind of split personality and that I needed to get to a hospital ASAP. I laughed so hard that day, that I really did need to go to the hospital that day. Didn't know much either, cause they put me out.

Well anyway, if I do any imitation then I need the actual tools; so for playing Sherlock I took out his famous hat and a pipe (don't ask me how I get them, I just do). I snapped out of my trance when I heard Kakashi cough purposely.

"I think I should take you to the Hokage first before anything else happens." He paid for the meal and went, I followed closely.

-at the Hokage Tower, in front of Sarutobi-

"So, Kakashi. Your saying that she fell on you?" Sarutobi asked Kakashi. 'He thinks it's a lie, well if I were him I would think the same.' I stood beside Kakashi, as Sarutobi addressed him while he was looking at me; once in a while.

"Yeah, I happened to walk by, and before I knew it I was on the ground. With a very heavy weight on me." He didn't look at me when he said this, but I gaped at him. 'Well that was rude! Sure I eat a lot of my favorite food- but I'm not fat!' So I decided for the rest of the meeting that I would continuously glare at him. I mentally did a victory pose, when Kakashi shifted his weight (even if it was for a second).

"Well, what is your name?" Sarutobi brought me out of my glaring proposal, with his question. "And please answer truthfully."

'Truthfully? What the heck, who wouldn't answer truthfully?' "My name is Sinitria. Age 14. Grade 9. I live in a place called America. Have a mom, dad, brother, sister, a cat named Deidara, a dog named Sarutobi, oh we can't forget my Parakeet that I named Hidan; He even has Hidan's personality!… need anything else?" I finished my introduction, leaving both the people in my presence gaping. Sarutobi composed himself quickly, Kakashi composed himself a few minutes after him.

"Okay… then, how exactly does that tell us that you know Kakashi's name." He said (I think he was still fazed with the fact that I named my dog after him).

"Oh about that, how should I put it… guess I'll say it out plainly," I looked at him seriously when I said my next statement. "Your world is a book in mine."

There was an awkward (somewhat awkward) silence. I fidgeted a bit before I burst out. "Umm… where is the bathroom? I can't hold it for long… 'When you gotta go you gotta go.'"

Well I couldn't explain what happened next (I was just too busy trying to hold it in). Sarutobi called for an ANBU to show me the way to the bathroom. I gladly followed him or her, whatever they're true gender is.

Third Person's POV

Sarutobi and Kakashi both looked at the teenage girl as she left. After she was gone, Sarutobi chuckled.

"Well, I could only see plain honesty in her. What about Kakashi?" He looked back at Kakashi.

"Hmm… she is pretty open about a lot of things. I don't think that she would hide anything from others, but I could be wrong." Kakashi replied. There was a silence for a few moments before he broke it. "I do think that she knows something about Kuro-kun."

Sarutobi raised his eyebrow. "Is that so? What is he hiding now?"

"Now?" Kakashi was confused.

"That's right, you weren't here when Kuro-kun was brought here. He told quite the story." Sarutobi sighed at the memory and told the story that Kuro had told him.

"He must had an imagination." Kakashi mused. He then told what Sinitria had told him, and the things he knew. Sarutobi was quiet for the whole time.

"He is going to have to explain things once he comes back." The Hokage sighed as he looked through his recent paperwork.

"There is something else I think you should know." Kakashi began.

"What is it?" Sarutobi replied without looking up.

"Mai, when I had the chance to converse with her, said that Kuro has truly become a guy." Kakashi said.

Me: FINALLY~~~~! IT'S FINISHED!

Sinitria: Is she always like this?

Kiba: Yeah, even before she made this fic.

Me: Don't be so mean Kiba~! Don't you feel sorry for me?

Kiba: No.

Me: *sulks in the corner*

Sinitria: *sweatdrops* So anybody got any idea on who this Kuro is?

Kuro: Someone called?

Sinitria: *stares* You really are an eight year old boy.

Kuro: Ya.

Hidan: WHERE'S THAT FUCKIN' PERU BRAT?

Sinitria: OMG! ITS HIDAN! Yup he looks just like my parakeet, same personality. *sighs*

Me: Oho, what does the 1087th consecutive loser want?

Hidan: YOUR GONNA FUCKIN' PAY BRAT!

Sinitria: o.O *turns to Kiba* Is this for real? Hidan lost?

Kiba: Yea, like said above.

Kuro: Make that 1088th time. Hidan lost again.

Sinitria: NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Kiba: I think we should end this now. See y'all later!

Me: Oh yeah Kiba, I should include you and your teammates in the next chapter. Shouldn't I?

Kiba: Whatever.